Quickoffice Updates iPhone App

Quickoffice has added word count, underline, and smooth scrolling to its latest Mobile Office Suite 1.5 for the iPhone--and is running another 50-percent-off promotion to boot.

Slowly but steadily, Quickoffice has been honing its Mobile Office Suite iPhone app to resemble a miniature version of Microsoft Office. The just-announced 1.5 update adds a number of enhancements, including a word count feature and underline in Quickword, along with smooth scrolling and adjust selection in Quicksheet.

In addition, users can now open password-protected Word and Excel files--important since we're talking about taking potentially vital business documents around in a device that's easily lost.

Quickoffice has been running promotions here and there too; the latest is a 50 percent discount to $9.99 for the next 10,000 buyers. I can't tell where we are in that queue, or if that queue even exists. But it's a good price for a powerful app.